The UK government’s Local Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (LEVI) fund has invested £35.7 million in London’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure across all 32 boroughs and the City of London.
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The City of London has launched a £110 million scrappage scheme for combustion engine vehicles. This follows the announced extension of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) to the whole of London from 29 August 2023. The scrappage subsidies target economically vulnerable groups.
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has confirmed that he will expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) London-wide. The expansion will come into effect on Tuesday 29 August 2023 and will operate across all of London up to the existing Low Emission Zone boundary.
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City Hall and TfL this week announced the release of land for 100 new ultra-rapid public charging points on London roads. The first 25 of these will be put out to tender on 30 November, and 75 more will follow by late April next year, aiming for all 100 to be operational by the end […]
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London’s ultra-low emission zone will be extended to the whole of Greater London by the end of next year under plans set out by the mayor, Sadiq Khan. Khan has ruled out a proposed £3.50 boundary charge for motorists to enter Greater London, as well as a daily clean air charge, which would apply to […]
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London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that from now on all new buses ordered by Transport for London (TfL) for the British capital will zero-emission vehicles.
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England’s first fleet of hydrogen-powered double-decker buses has gone into service in London today. Twenty fuel cell vehicles by Northern Ireland’s Wrightbus will serve the number 7 route between East Acton and Oxford Circus.
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The British capital unlocks as TfL resumes service on most London Underground lines. The opening goes hand in hand with the Mayor reintroducing the Congestion Charge and ULEZ. Both had been suspended during the Covid-19 lockdown to enable key workers to travel freely.
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In order to accelerate the switch to electric vehicles, London is doubling the scrapping premium for old vans with combustion engines to £7,000 (around 8,288 euros). Those who switch to an electric transporter even receive 9,500 pounds (approximately 11,248 euros) from the city.
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, the TfL and London Councils are investing £4 million across 29 boroughs to install 1,000 new electric vehicle charging points in residential areas throughout the British capital.
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London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has presented a plan for a comprehensive expansion of the city’s charging infrastructure, estimating the need for charging points up to 2025.
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First promised late last year, London has opened its scrapping fund to help microbusinesses and charities get rid of their older vans and minibuses and switch to cleaner vehicles. Worth 23 million pounds, the “scrap for cash” options are more attractive than expected.
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In a call to action, the Mayor of London and cross-party leaders will urge the British government to end pure diesel and petrol sales in 2030, ten years earlier than planned. Together they are representing around 20m people from across England and Wales.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan has turned to the private sector to increase electric car charging infrastructure in the capital with a nod to rapid charging. 16 organisations such as Shell UK or the RAC Foundation followed the call.
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London’s mayor Sadiq Khan says he considers bringing the planned Zero Emission Zones (ZEZ) in the British capital forward from 2025 to 2020. This acceleration is down to local businesses and authorities that want to speed up adoption of electric vehicles.
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The Mayor of London marks the installation of the 100th fast-charging station in the UK capital. 51 of those charge points are reserved for electric black cabs. Also London’s boroughs say they’ve made progress in their patchy EV infrastructure.
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“For me, the use of the two cars reinforces the range anxiety. That will change, and then it starts to get interesting.”
Aston-Martin-CEO Andy Palmer’s remark refers to the Formula E, about which he also said, the brand would be very interested to take part once the change of cars becomes obsolete in season 2018/19.
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“These car manufacturers admit they’ve got to cut emissions from their vehicles, but they confine their funding to Germany alone. This is ridiculous, as their vehicles are driven all over Europe, including on London’s roads.”
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan called out Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen to help fund clean air initiatives in Britain as they were otherwise operating with “double standards”.
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“Diesel will not disappear from one day to another. But I am quite sure they will disappear much faster than we can imagine.”
Elżbieta Bieńkowska, the European Union’s industry commissioner, commented on tougher rules to get cars that are more polluting when driven than when tested off the roads. While no independent EU emission testing institution will be created, Brussels will be allowed to fine carmakers up to 30,000 euros per vehicle if caught.
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In the wake of the EU decision, London mayor Sadiq Khan demands major interventions including a national diesel scrappage fund, new low emission zones across the UK and a Clean Air Act for the 21st Century from the British government. The latter however was instrumental in preventing EU oversight of emission testing.
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“We will be producing a new air quality plan – we’ve been required to do that by the courts. (…) But I’m very conscious of the fact that past governments have encouraged people to buy diesel cars and we need to take that into account.”
With these words UK Prime Minister Theresa May stops short any hope that her Tory government will take to the task to end diesel and/or act for air quality enthusiastically or in a proactive manner.
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“Up to 250km (155 mile) range, battery-electric vehicles already can be built for less money than hybrids.”
Satoshi Ogiso, who has worked on the Toyota Prius and fuel cell development programme, says that an EV with more range than 300 km, however, will come with a high price tag – at least until 2025.
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Europe’s Industry Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska warns governments and industries to invest more time and money in electrification or risk falling behind the rest of the world.
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London Mayor Sadiq Khan wants to clean up London’s streets by shifting to zero emission drivetrains for buses and taxis. Moreover, he is looking to hold a conference for bus manufactures to push innovation in the right direction.
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“Most just didn’t understand how bringing together a car and a solar company made sense from a product standpoint.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is certain that investors will approve the merger of the EV maker and SolarCity. He even expects a “supermajority” to vote in favour of the deal.
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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is working on phasing out the most polluting vehicles in the British capital. A newly presented Greenpeace report suggests that cleaner air could be a reality if London bans diesel cars.
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“India needs to look at incentives for electric and hybrids again. In China, almost half of the cost of the green vehicle was incentivised. Even though it need not be that high here, but it certainly has to be higher than what it is.”
Pawan Sachdeva, Mahindra Reva’s senior general manager, says that EV uptake in India is still too low and that the administration needs to motivate motorists to make the switch. Only 753 EVs were sold in the country, compared to 1,76,627 in China.
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“I think obviously if a company decides to go more into electric, it makes the decision to come into Formula E easier.”
Alejandro Agag, chief executive at Formula E, hopes Volkswagen’s push into the electric vehicle industry also pushes them to be more involved in the electric racing series, as it would help grow the competition into a more stable institution.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan addressed unexpected results caused by the Brexit including the loss of EU clean air standards. Khan called for a new and powerful Clean Air Act to, among other things, speed up the move to electric vehicles.
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London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan has proposed a new ‘T-Charge’ (for toxicity) that would penalise drivers of polluting vehicles in the British capital. As it will supposedly be based on NOx emissions, diesel vehicles would be hit first with the fee.
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“We see the PHEV as a necessary step but not the goal.”
Honda Motor President and CEO Takahiro Hachigo acknowledges plug-in hybrids but ultimately aims at electric and fuel cell vehicles instead. His prediction is that by 2050, “these cars will be dominant in the mix of models we build.”
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“I think it’s going to be delayed again.”
Bob Lutz shows “concern” regarding the Tesla Model 3. He continues to repeat his usual argument that the EV maker’s business model is flawed, as it is not driven by (short term) profit.
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